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Stock Annex | 1 ICES Stock Annex | 1 Stock Annex: Sole (Solea spp.) in divisions 8.c and 9.a (Cantabrian Sea and At- lantic Iberian waters) Stock-specific documentation of standard assessment procedures used by ICES. Stock Sole Group Working Group for the Bay of Biscay and Iberian Waters Ecoregion (WGBIE) Created Maria de Fatima Borges (WGBIE) May 2014 Last updated March 2021 Last updated by Maria Grazia Pennino and Catarina Maia A. General A.1. Stock definition Solea Solea is a widely distributed species in Northeast Atlantic shelf waters with a range from southern Norway including North Sea and western Baltic and Mediterra- nean Sea, to the Northwest of Africa inhabiting sandy and muddy bottoms at depths near to 100 and 200 meters (Quero et al., 1986). At present there is no information on stock unit definition for common sole in ICES subdivision 8.c and 9.a. It was considered that in the absence on specific information on stock structure, the subdivisions 8.c and 9.a may be used as a management unit. A.2. Fishery The unit management of the common sole stock in the Iberian Atlantic waters includes the ICES subdivisions 8.c and 9.a. where both the Portuguese and Spanish fleets oper- ate. In this area common sole is target mainly by multispecies fleets using as main fish- ing gears trammel and gillnets. The minimum landing size of sole species is 24 cm. There are other regulations regarding the mesh size for trammel and trawl nets, fishing grounds and vessel’s size. Sole species are under the Landing Obligation in divisions 8.abde (all bottom trawls, mesh sizes between 70 mm and 100 mm, all beam trawls, mesh sizes between 70 mm and 100 mm and all trammel and gillnets, mesh size larger or equal to 100 mm) and in Division 9.a (all trammel nets and gillnets, mesh size larger or equal to 100 mm). In Portugal all catches of sole species from all gears and mesh sizes are under the Landing Obligation (more restrictively than required by European regulations). The EU multiannual plan (MAP; EU, 2019) for stocks in the Western Waters and adja- cent waters applies to this stock. The MAP stipulates that when the FMSY ranges are not available, fishing opportunities should be based on the best available scientific advice. A.3. Ecosystem aspects The life cycle of common sole is complex and presents different ontogenetic migrations (Tanner et al., 2017). Common sole spawn in coastal waters at depths ranging from 30 to 100 m (van der Land, 1991). The spawning period is commonly between February and May, although it can occur in early winter in warmer areas. The development of the larvae is temperature-dependent and takes place in shallow waters (Tanner et al., 2 | ICES Stock Annex 2017). It is during transport from spawning areas to coastal nurseries that the larvae metamorphose into benthic life (Marchand, 1991). Nursery areas are generally located within estuaries where juveniles of common sole spend up to two years in a residence phase before returning to the adult feeding and spawning areas on the continental shelf (e.g. Vasconcelos et al., 2010). B. Data B.1. Commercial catch During the WGBIE2020, Portuguese's colleagues highlighted that catches from Portu- gal have a problem of misidentification in some ports with the three species (i.e. Solea solea, Solea senegalensis, Pegusa lascaris and Solea spp.) (Dinis et al., 2020). For the WKWEST2021 benchmark, using data from the Data Collection Framework (DCF) sampling, Portuguese catches were proportionally divided by sole species ap- plying the species weight proportion to the total weight of Soleidae in each year, land- ing port, and semester and using a simple random sampling estimator, following Figueiredo et al. (2020). Details on data available and catch estimation procedures can be found in Annex 2 of the working document Pennino et al. (2021). At the moment the new Portuguese catches are considered reliable. In addition, from the WKWEST2021 data call, catches for S. solea were also reported by France and now are available in InterCatch from 2009 to 2019 (Figure 1). Information on discards indicates that discarding can be considered negligible (< 1%). For the years 2009–2010, only catches from Spain and France are available, while for the other years (2011–2019) catches are available for the three countries (i.e. Portugal, Spain and France) (Figure 2). Figure 1: Catches for Solea solea by category (landings, discards and BMS landing) in the ICES divisions 8c9a for Portugal, Spain and France from 2009 to 2019. Source data: InterCatch. ICES Stock Annex | 3 Figure 2: Catches for Solea solea in the ICES divisions 8c9a by country from 2009 to 2019. Source data: InterCatch. When catches are analysed by division it is possible to see that the majority of them are in the ICES Division 9a and that, although different fleets fish this stock, the two main ones are the polyvalent fleet from Portugal (i.e. “MIS_MIS_0_0_0”) and the trammel net fleet from Spain (i.e. “GRT_DEF_60-79_0_0”) (Figure 3). The distribution of the catches is almost homogenous along the year for the two main countries (i.e. Portugal and Spain), as well as for the main fleets (Figure 4). 4 | ICES Stock Annex Figure 3: Catches for Solea solea by the main fleet in the ICES divisions 8c9a for Portugal, Spain and France from 2009 to 2019. Source data: InterCatch. Figure 4: Catches for Solea solea by quarter in the ICES divisions 8c9a for Portugal, Spain and France from 2009 to 2019. Source data: InterCatch. Length frequency distribution ICES Stock Annex | 5 In InterCatch, data on length frequency distribution are available for the years 2011– 2019 (Figure 5). The majority of the data are of the polyvalent fleet (i.e. métier “MIS_MIS_0_0_0”) from Portugal. Figure 5: Length frequency distribution of catches for Solea solea in the ICES divisions 8c9a by year (from 2011 to 2019) for Portugal, Spain and France. Source data: Inter- Catch. Other sole species For the WKWEST21 an official data call was requested for this stock to get all the pos- sible data, not only for the common sole (S. Solea) but also for the other sole species Solea senegalensis, Pegusa lascaris and Solea spp. (Figure 6). For Portugal, S. Senegalensis and P. lascaris landings and length frequency distribution are available for the period 2011–2019. Solea spp. landings are also available for the pe- riod 2011–2019. For Spain, S. Senegalensis, P. lascaris and Solea spp. landings are availa- ble for the period 2009–2019. No French data on these species were available. 6 | ICES Stock Annex Figure 6: Sole species landings for the Division 8c9a. Data are from Spain and Portu- gal together. B.2. Biological Growth studies based on S. solea otolith readings in the Portuguese coast indicate Linf 52.1 cm for and 45.7 cm for while the growth coefficient (k) estimate of females (K=0.23) was slightly higher than for males (k=0.21) and to estimates were -0.11 and 1.57 for fe- males and males respectively (Teixeira and Cabral, 2010). Common sole length of first maturity was estimated as 25 cm for males and 27 cm for females (Jardim et al., 2011). The natural mortality parameter M is not known for this stock but for the stock of com- mon sole ICES Division 8a, is used a M of 0.2. A recent study of Cerim et al. (2020) defined the M of the common sole as M= 0.31 yr-1. L95 is not known for this stock but for the common sole ICES Division 8a, b is 27.5 (see stock annex sol-bisc division 8a,b). Bayesian length–weight: a=0.00759 (0.00629–0.00915), b=3.06 (3.00–3.12), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Froese et al., 2014). B.3. Surveys Common sole data were collected during the scientific survey series SP-NSGFS Q4 per- formed by the Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) in autumn (September and Oc- tober) between 2000 and 2019. Surveys were conducted on the northern continental shelf of the Iberian Peninsula (ICES divisions 8c and the northern part of 9a) which has a total surface area of almost 18 000 km2 (Figure 7). ICES Stock Annex | 7 Surveys were performed using a stratified sampling design based on depth with three bathymetric strata: 70–120 m, 121–200 m and 201–500 m. Sampling stations consisted of 30 minute trawling hauls located randomly within each stratum at the beginning of the design. The gear used is the baka 44/60 and the survey follow the protocol of the International Bottom Trawl Survey Working Group (IBTSWG) of ICES (ICES, 2017). Figure 7: Map of the study area. Black dots represent annual sampling locations. However, the common sole is a species with a biological bathymetric range between 0 and 200 meters in the Iberian Atlantic waters. The SP-NSGFS Q4 only covers partially the common sole bathymetric range and the resultant abundance index is probably underestimated. For this reason, and with the aim to correct this sampling bias, a hur- dle Bayesian spatiotemporal was applied to this dataset. Two response variables were analysed in order to characterize the spatiotemporal be- haviour of common sole individuals. Firstly, a presence/absence variable was consid- ered to measure the occurrence probability of the species. Secondly, the weight by haul (kg) was used as an indicator of the conditional-to-presence abundance of the species. As environmental variable we used the bathymetry. Bathymetry values were retrieved from the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet, http://www.emodnet.eu/) with a spatial resolution of 0.02 x 0.02 decimal degrees (20 m).
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